U P Kamath wrote:
I find Manglorean Catholic girls and women
> quite
> attractive, whereas I find Goan catholics distinctively
> ugly in general. I
> feel It is due to 450 years of Portuguese slavery. Now one
> may be
> politically correct and accuse me of bias. But I feel the
> Mangalorean
> catholics had more freedom for generations and it shows on
> their faces!
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I have no idea what U P Kamath was thinking when he wrote this bilious post,
but I suspect this "observation" has something to do with the sort of communal
tripe that is bandied about in Goa these day. 450 years of colonisation has had
little effect on the Konkan gene pool, either on the Hindu or the Catholic
side. An insignificant percentage of the Goan population is mestizo. The rest
of us are as ethnically intact as Mangolerean or Maharasthran Indians.
Secondly beauty lies not in faces but in attitudes. If 450 years of being
Catholic, has made us a tolerant, progressive, well-educated, lowest birth
rate, highest ratio of female to male birth rate, and high per capita income
society, then maybe its time other communities to take a page from our book.
selma
